Central to our security strategy in ensuring protection of our customer’s data, we are taking a step further, by enabling encryption by default using Microsoft Managed Keys for all the data written to all Azure services (Blob, File, Table and Queue storage) for all storage accounts (Azure Resource Manager and Classic storage accounts) both new and existing.

Customers who monitor real-time data can now easily detect events or observations that do not conform to an expected pattern thanks to machine learning-based anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics, announced for private preview today.

We are pleased to announce the public preview of new performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database. These new choices enable further price optimization opportunities for CPU intensive and storage bound workloads.

This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks. Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure.

We are excited to debut our native Jenkins on Azure support for Kubernetes; make it easy for you to build using container agent and deploy a Kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Service. See you at Jenkins World 2017!

Azure Cosmos DB is a blazing fast, globally distributed, multi-model database service. In this article, we will further explore stream processing of updates to data with Azure Cosmos DB change feed and Apache Spark.